Dr Ursula Crickmay

About me:

Ursula works as a post doctoral research fellow on projects in the School of Education. She is currently working on Penryn Creativity Collaboratives, an Arts Council England funded project developing and embedding creativity across the curriculum in primary and secondary schools. As part of an ESRC IAA funded impact phase of this project, she has recently co-developed the Creativity Action Research Resource, supporting educators to develop their practices in teaching for creativity through action research. Other recent projects have included the Sci-Arts Creative Teaching Resource and the research programme Dance, Health and Wellbeing: Debating and Moving Forward Methodologies.  She is on the editorial board for the journal Thinking Skills and Creativity, and lectured on the Creative Arts in Education MA Programme as music specialist over the course of four years. Ursula recently completed her doctoral studies in which she focused on professional musicians and their creative music workshop practices, using a framework of posthuman theory. 

Her background is in the development and management of creative learning programmes with artists, organisations and venues. As Director of Learning at Wigmore Hall she established flagship music programmes in early years, schools, community and dementia care settings, and in recent years redeveloped the South West branch of Live Music Now, working with young professional musicians and communities across the South West of England. She has recently returned to Wigmore Hall to advise on further development of their learning programmes, as Creative Learning Lead.

She is a member of the Creativity and Emergent Educational-Futures network and coordinates a Music Network Group which brings together staff and students from different disciplines with an interest in music in their research - please get in touch if you would be interested in joining.